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Gen X kids rated most emotionally durable generation
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:51 am
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:51 am
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Well duh.
Well duh.
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1960s and 70s weren’t trying to create emotionally resilient kids. Parents back then weren’t reading child psychology books or attending parenting seminars. They were just trying to get by, often working multiple jobs, dealing with their own struggles. Kids were left to figure things out on their own.
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Here’s something that’ll sound crazy to younger folks: we used to wait for things. Not just minutes or hours. Sometimes days, weeks, or months. If you wanted to watch a specific TV show, you had to be there when it aired or you missed it forever. If you wanted to buy something, you saved up for months.
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Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:55 am to CAD703X
Your childhood isn’t markedly different than those of us growing up in the 80s. We just didn’t turn into the cynical apathetic cunts that you Xers did 
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:56 am to Joshjrn
quote:Speak for yourself.
Your childhood isn’t markedly different than those of us growing up in the 80s. We just didn’t turn into the cynical apathetic count that you Xers did
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:57 am to CAD703X
Xennials for the win.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:57 am to CAD703X
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Here’s something that’ll sound crazy to younger folks: we used to wait for things. Not just minutes or hours. Sometimes days, weeks, or months. If you wanted to watch a specific TV show, you had to be there when it aired or you missed it forever. If you wanted to buy something, you saved up for months.
You know what else is different? Parents didn’t spy on their kids every moment with Life360 like a bunch of psychopaths.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:58 am to Scruffy
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Speak for yourself.
Scruffy is timeless and defies petty concerns like generational expectations.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:58 am to CAD703X
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Here’s something that’ll sound crazy to younger folks: we used to wait for things. Not just minutes or hours. Sometimes days, weeks, or months.
6-8 weeks shipping was the norm for all of the cool stuff.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:59 am to CAD703X
The two examples quoted in the OP exactly describe me as a late Boomer too.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:01 am to BOHICAMAN
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You know what else is different? Parents didn’t spy on their kids every moment with Life360 like a bunch of psychopaths.
Do you have kids?
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:02 am to SmackDaniels
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Do you have kids?
Two of them. I have no idea where they are right now.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:03 am to BOHICAMAN
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You know what else is different? Parents didn’t spy on their kids every moment with Life360 like a bunch of psychopaths.
That doesn't apply to Gen X or millennials
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:04 am to CAD703X
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we used to wait for things. Not just minutes or hours. Sometimes days, weeks, or months
It was called "Layaway" and all us hillbillies used it.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:04 am to CAD703X
Don’t bring this type of thing up. I want no part of bickering with Boomers or tranny millennials
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:05 am to BOHICAMAN
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Parents didn’t spy on their kids every moment with Life360 like a bunch of psychopaths.
Glad I grew up without this BS tracking.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:18 am to bad93ex
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6-8 weeks shipping was the norm for all of the cool stuff.
Unless it was sea monkeys or X-ray glasses out of the back of a comic book. fricking scammers, got at least one kid out every bunch.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:21 am to CAD703X
If you wanted music you went to the record store to buy it, they might have it and they might not.
If you wanted concert tickets you went either to the record store, the venue box office or you tried to win them on the radio.
If you needed to do research you looked it up in an encyclopedia, or you went to the library and checked out books on the subject
for clothes, shoes, etc you got what was on the shelf when you went to the store. If you didn’t like what they had you either went without or to another store.
if you wanted to talk to someone you either called their house phone, rode over to their house or went looking for them.
If you wanted concert tickets you went either to the record store, the venue box office or you tried to win them on the radio.
If you needed to do research you looked it up in an encyclopedia, or you went to the library and checked out books on the subject
for clothes, shoes, etc you got what was on the shelf when you went to the store. If you didn’t like what they had you either went without or to another store.
if you wanted to talk to someone you either called their house phone, rode over to their house or went looking for them.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:27 am to Joshjrn
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Your childhood isn’t markedly different than those of us growing up in the 80s. We just didn’t turn into the cynical apathetic count that you Xers did
Pffff. Millennials. Weak as soy
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:31 am to CAD703X
and then y'all turned around and raised Gen Z
Great job guys!
Great job guys!
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:37 am to CAD703X
And somehow Gen X thought full stop coddling their children wouldn’t be a complete disaster. They getting learnt
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:49 am to cgrand
Or we bought a boom box with a cassette player that had a record button. Waited for how long it took for a song like Don’t Bring Me Down by ELO to come on the radio and hit the button at the first recognizable note.
For concert tickets, we went to Turtles. Sometimes getting there in the wee hours of the morning to get a decent spot in line outside the door.
For concert tickets, we went to Turtles. Sometimes getting there in the wee hours of the morning to get a decent spot in line outside the door.
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